About 200 people turned out for Deanna Cook's funeral at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Cliff.

“We’re going to get with the Police Department and they’re going to remember her name associated with this,” Grate said at Laurel Land cemetery, minutes before Cook’s white coffin was lowered into the ground.

The crowd at the cemetery was slightly smaller than the roughly 200 who turned out for the funeral at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Cliff. There, friends and family recalled the 32-year-old mother of two teenage girls who they said had turned a corner in her life and was devoted to God in recent years.

“I saw the transition in this woman,” Grate said. “She probably didn’t have a clue that her life touched so many people.”

Her death should serve as a wake-up call, some said.

“If you love somebody, tell them,” said Valecia Battle, one of Cook’s three sisters. “My sister had a relationship with God.”

Cook’s mother, sisters and daughters were among family members who donned purple dresses at the closed-casket proceeding.

No one other than Grate spoke specifically about the circumstances surrounding Cook’s death.

Cook’s 911 call was not given the highest priority response even though she was heard choking, gurgling and pleading for her ex-husband, Delvecchio Patrick, to stop killing her, according to law enforcement officials. Two officers arrived at Cook’s southeast Dallas house about 50 minutes after the 11-minute call was placed and left after no one answered the door.

Patrick, 35, is in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge. He has a history of beating and threatening to kill Cook.